Huda Hassan is a writer and cultural critic.

Her award-winning writing appears everywhere, including in New York Magazine, Pitchfork, The Globe & Mail, Cosmopolitan, BuzzFeed, and Hazlitt. A former columnist for CBC Arts (Against the Grain), she now writes a newsletter called Mother, Loosen My Tongue.

As a critic, Huda appears on CBC’s Commotion, Metro Morning, and The Current, alongside CTV’s Culture Shock and Pop Life shows. She is a juror for the National Magazine Awards, Polaris Music Prize, and the SOCAN Songwriting Awards.

Huda was a Visiting Assistant Professor at New York University (2022-2025) and is a recipient of the New York Public Library’s Schomburg fellowship for her writing and research.

Huda is writing a book of essays on cities and grief (McClelland & Stewart, 2027). She is represented by Ron Eckel (Cooke McDermid).

Huda was raised in Toronto’s east end, has lived in Montreal, and now lives in Brooklyn.